There are a variety of approaches to identifying Domestic Violence issues. The Domestic Violence Data Harmonisation Group has worked across the city and the county for a number of years to encourage and support organisations to collect data on Domestic Violence.
A sample database (known as the ‘DV1’), developed by this group, is in use by some local agencies. Others have added a question on Domestic Violence into their own monitoring systems.
In the police domain domestic incidents are identified through a number of avenues. The majority occur through the use of the 999 and non-emergency line; other referrals are received through: the enquiry desk, the crime input bureau, police officers, other agencies and as a result of other enquiries.
Leicester has some of the most disadvantaged areas in the whole of England, measured by the Index of Deprivation, which takes into account income, employment, health deprivation and disability, education skills and training, the living environment and crime. There are vast differences across the city and within super output areas (those areas listed as in the worst 5% for the previous categories).
The number of children on the child protection register in Leicester City at the end of March 06 was 288. This represents a percentage figure of 42.3 children per 10,000 under 18 years and is above the family average for similar authorities of 30.4 per 10,0005.
The following local Domestic Violence data represents one year (2005-6), unless otherwise stated. These figures represent a sample of the information we have collated and analysed through the DV data collation report 2004-6, currently in production. We have found that bringing agencies together to analyse Domestic Violence Data is the only way to gain an accurate sense of the local picture.
